Atlantic Cape Offers Free Courses for Businesses

March 21, 2013

Atlantic Cape Community College’s Basic-Skills Workforce Training Program offers free basic skills training to employees of Atlantic and Cape May County businesses through grant funding from the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development’s Skills4Jersey in partnership with the New Jersey Council of Community Colleges and New Jersey Business and Industry Association.

New courses include:

PowerPoint I

PowerPoint II

Spanish in the Workplace I

Spanish in the Workplace II

Employees can also receive basic skills training in English as a second language, written and verbal communication, computer applications (Windows, Microsoft Word and Excel 2003, 2007, 2010), mathematics and measurement and customer service. Customized courses for groups of 10 or more can be arranged.

The classes are free to all private sector and nonprofit employers in the state; however, employees taking the classes must be paid at their regular hourly rate while in training. Business owners are eligible only if they pay taxes into the Unemployment Insurance Fund.